Dr Lindsay Blank [PhD, BSc]
Section of Public Health
ScHARR
University of Sheffield
Regent Court
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA
Office: Room 2037, 2nd Floor, Regent Court
Tel: (+44) (0) 114 222 0853
Fax: (+44) (0) 114 272 4095
email : l.blank@sheffield.ac.uk
Biography
I have a variety of research interests broadly in the areas of health inequalities and public health evidence synthesis. Methods including: literature reviewing and critical appraisal, questionnaire design, semi-structured interviewing (telephone and face to face), quantitative and qualitative data analysis and interpretation, case studies, action research methods, writing for publication, and conference presentations.
I am currently working primarily as a lead reviewer on the NICE PHCC team. At present I am working on assessment of evidence to inform Public Health Intervention Guidance on Wellbeing of 0-4 year olds I have also recently completed an evidence assessment to inform Public Health Programme Guidance relating to the NHS provision of contraceptive services for socially disadvantaged young people (up to the age of 25). and previously Intervention Guidance on universal interventions which aim to promote emotional and social wellbeing in secondary schools.
I am Fellowships and Studentships Officer for the ScHARR Postgraduate Research Committee (PGRC). This role has the remit of developing and supporting postgraduate research opportunities within the department, with particular objectives to: increase the number of quality postgraduate research students in ScHARR, and to take a proactive approach to attracting students and generating studentships in ScHARR.
Research Interests
As principal investigator:
Evaluation of Yorkshire and Humber Regional Healthy Eating Initiatives. £35,000. DoH. Blank L, Ford F, Goyder L, Bissell P, Williams J, Naylor P, Peters P, Smith C
Vocational Rehabilitation Services in Sheffield £7,000. Sheffield Occupational Health Advisory Service. Lindsay Blank, Jean Peters, Simon Pickvance
Mapping of Nutrition Training, £9,958. Bradford City Teaching Primary Care NHS Trust. Lindsay Blank, Jean Peters, Libby Ellis
A Review of Health Inequalities in Sheffield £8,000 Sheffield Research Consortium. Lindsay Blank, Jean Peters, Libby Ellis
Greenfingers Community Allotment Evaluation. £2000. Sheffield NDC. Blank L.
Mapping of Nutrition Training, £9,958. Bradford City Teaching Primary Care NHS Trust. Lindsay Blank, Jean Peters, Libby Ellis
A Review of Health Inequalities in Sheffield £8,000 Sheffield Research Consortium. Lindsay Blank, Jean Peters, Libby Ellis
Key publications
- Blank L, Baxter S, Goyder E, Naylor PB, Guillaume L, Wilkinson A, Hummel S, Chilcott J, Promoting wellbeing by changing behaviour; a systematic review and narrative synthesis of the effectiveness of whole secondary school behavioural interventions. Mental Health Review Journal (2010)
- Blank L, Baxter SK, Payne N,, Guillaume L,and Pilgrim H. Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis of the Effectiveness of Contraceptive Service Interventions for Young People, Delivered in Educational Settings MSc J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol (2010)
- Blank L, Bissell P, Goyder E, Clarke H. `I don't go in for all that scaremongering´: perceptions of and strategies to manage food safety risk. In: Peter Jackson (ed) Changing Families, Changing Food. (2009). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Blank L, Peters J, Pickvance S, Wilford J, MacDonald E. Systematic review of the factors which predict return to work for people suffering episodes of mental ill health. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation (2008); 18(1): 27-34.
- Blannk L, Grimsley M, Goyder E, Peters J, Ellis E. Community Based Lifestyle Interventions: Changing Behaviour and Improving Health. Journal of Public Health Medicine (2007); 29: 236-245